14-letter words containing w, a, n, y
- a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
- acknowledgedly — by general agreement, admittedly
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
- come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
- daffadowndilly — a daffodil
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- employment law — rules governing working practices
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- get in the way — be an obstacle
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
- in a small way — slightly, somewhat
- king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
- known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
- make one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
- maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
- new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
- new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
- one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
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